Applications are invited for up to two postgraduate research
studentships in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham,
available for three years from September 2004. Candidates should
possess, or expect to obtain, a good undergraduate degree and/or a
relevant Masters degree. The studentships include payment of fees at the
Home/EU rate and a maintenance grant (expected to be around £10,500 per
annum). To be eligible for university awards candidates will be required
to apply for research council studentships where appropriate.
The deadline for applications is 11 March 2004. Application forms are
available from Miranda Hancock, Postgraduate Secretary, School of
Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7
2RD; Tel 0115 9515575; Email: [log in to unmask]
Potential applicants should give an indication of their area of research
interest on enquiry, and will be required to submit a research proposal
with their application.
Information on the School's research themes in Cultural and Historical
Geography, New Economic Geographies, Geographical Information Science,
Environmental Change and Biogeography, and Process and Applied
Geomorphology, is available at www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography
Applications are welcome on any research topic within the broad
interests of the School. The list of potential research topics for
geographical information science includes:
1. Grid GIS [Bob Abrahart]
2. Neural Network Hydrological Modelling [Bob Abrahart]
3. "Context Based" Slope Mapping Algorithms [Bob Abrahart]
4. Soft and Robust Spatial Statistics [Bob Abrahart, Roy Bradshaw]
5. Historical Military Geography [Bob Abrahart, Roy Bradshaw]
6. Historical GIS [Roy Bradshaw, Bob Abrahart]
7. Digital Derby 1841 [Roy Bradshaw, BobAbrahart, Gary Priestnall]
8. Self-Organising Feature Maps [Roy Bradshaw, Bob Abrahart]
9. Spatial Economic Modelling [Roy Bradshaw, Bob Abrahart]
10. Community Participation and Geographical Information Systems: A web
interface for capturing real worlds [Gary Priestnall]
11. Augmenting reality? An analysis of the role of GIS-based
visualisation for landscape representation [Gary Priestnall]
12. Fusing remotely sensed data within a GIS environment for monitoring
upland gully erosion in Derbyshire, England [Gary Priestnall]
13. Environmental remote sensing [Paul Aplin]
14. Monitoring structural vegetation change in southern Africa from
remote sensing [Paul Aplin]
15. Remote sensing urban greenness [Paul Aplin]
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